diff --git a/proxy/pkg/command/proxy_example_config.yaml b/proxy/pkg/command/proxy_example_config.yaml
index 4cfb08b5d..0c2bff022 100644
--- a/proxy/pkg/command/proxy_example_config.yaml
+++ b/proxy/pkg/command/proxy_example_config.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#log:
-#  level: debug
-#  color: false
-#  pretty: false
+log:
+  level: info
+  color: true
+  pretty: true
 http:
   addr: "${PROXY_HTTP_ADDR|localhost:2222}"
diff --git a/proxy/pkg/command/server.go b/proxy/pkg/command/server.go
index 6a1465767..521d2f07d 100644
--- a/proxy/pkg/command/server.go
+++ b/proxy/pkg/command/server.go
@@ -39,14 +39,15 @@ func Server(cfg *config.Config) *cli.Command {
 	return &cli.Command{
 		Name:  "server",
 		Usage: "Start integrated server",
-		//Flags: append(flagset.ServerWithConfig(cfg), flagset.RootWithConfig(cfg)...),
 		Before: func(ctx *cli.Context) error {
-			logger := NewLogger(cfg)
+			if err := ParseConfig(ctx, cfg); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
 			if cfg.HTTP.Root != "/" {
 				cfg.HTTP.Root = strings.TrimSuffix(cfg.HTTP.Root, "/")
 			}
-			// StringSliceFlag doesn't support Destination
-			// UPDATE Destination on string flags supported. Wait for https://github.com/urfave/cli/pull/1078 to get to micro/cli
+
 			if len(ctx.StringSlice("presignedurl-allow-method")) > 0 {
 				cfg.PreSignedURL.AllowedHTTPMethods = ctx.StringSlice("presignedurl-allow-method")
 			}
@@ -55,13 +56,6 @@ func Server(cfg *config.Config) *cli.Command {
 				return err
 			}
 
-			if err := ParseConfig(ctx, cfg); err != nil {
-				panic(err)
-			}
-			//if !cfg.Supervised {
-			//	return ParseConfig(ctx, cfg)
-			//}
-			logger.Debug().Str("service", "ocs").Msg("ignoring config file parsing when running supervised")
 			return nil
 		},
 		Action: func(c *cli.Context) error {
diff --git a/proxy/pkg/proxy/proxy.go b/proxy/pkg/proxy/proxy.go
index a863fd5e9..465c1563c 100644
--- a/proxy/pkg/proxy/proxy.go
+++ b/proxy/pkg/proxy/proxy.go
@@ -93,20 +93,15 @@ func NewMultiHostReverseProxy(opts ...Option) *MultiHostReverseProxy {
 	for _, pol := range options.Config.Policies {
 		for _, route := range pol.Routes {
 			rp.logger.Debug().Str("fwd: ", route.Endpoint)
-			uri, err := url.Parse(route.Backend)
-			if err != nil {
+			uri, err2 := url.Parse(route.Backend)
+			if err2 != nil {
 				rp.logger.
 					Fatal(). // fail early on misconfiguration
-					Err(err).
+					Err(err2).
 					Str("backend", route.Backend).
 					Msg("malformed url")
 			}
 
-			rp.logger.
-				Debug().
-				Interface("route", route).
-				Msg("adding route")
-
 			rp.AddHost(pol.Name, uri, route)
 		}
 	}